Hans Straub
Hans Straub (born November 30, 1895 in Berg , Canton Thurgau ; † December 24, 1962 in Winterthur ) was a Swiss civil engineer and historian of structural engineering.
biography
Hans Straub, son of a pastor, attended the canton school in Frauenfeld and studied civil engineering and then architecture at the ETH Zurich from 1914 to 1919 . He was then an assistant at the ETH and from 1921 worked as a civil engineer for a large construction company (Ferrobeton) in Rome, particularly in port and hydraulic engineering (from 1930 in Ferrobeton's subsidiary, the Societá Italiana per Lavori Marittimi ). From 1955 he was technical director there and oversaw numerous large construction projects around the world, such as dry dock in Venice and Genoa .
In addition, he began to be interested in the history of construction technology. Among other things, he found the reports on the statics of the dome of St.Peter's Basilica by Rugjer Josip Bošković , Thomas Le Seur and François Jacquier in the archives. In particular, Boskovic's report marked the actual birth of civil engineering on a scientific basis for him. From 1938 to 1944, Straub published several essays on the history of construction technology in the Schweizerische Bauzeitung , before writing his book, which he found enough time to do during the German occupation of Rome. His book on the history of civil engineering is considered a standard work.
He was married to Klara Schmidt since 1925.
Fonts
- The history of civil engineering: an overview from antiquity to modern times. 4th edition. Birkhäuser, Basel 1992, ISBN 3-7643-2441-4 (first edition in 1949, revised new editions by Peter Zimmermann).
- With Robert von Halász : The History of Civil Engineering. In: Structural Engineering . 37th volume, issue 4, 1960.
- Bridges. In: Heimatschutz = Patrimoine , Vol. 24, 1929, pp. 33-48 ( digitized version ).
literature
- Karl-Eugen Kurrer : History of Structural Analysis. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-433-01641-0 , p. 490 f. ( online ).
- Schweizerische Bauzeitung , Volume 81, 1963, 154 f.
- Achim Hettler , Karl-Eugen Kurrer: Earth pressure. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-433-03274-9 , p. 346.
Web links
- Bruno Meyer: Hans Straub. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Straub, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss civil engineer and building historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berg , Canton of Thurgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1962 |
| Place of death | Winterthur |